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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:33 am

Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:09 am
MVL still seems to be in a bit of a slump.
If you have Russian it appears Kramnik may have some hard words for him
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Mick Norris » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:40 am

Google translate gives me
Vladimir Kramnik: “To earn the right to a world championship match, it’s not enough just to play chess well, you must also serve chess. I don’t have the feeling that Vachier-Lagrave worked hard this year and that he is a professional in his business”.
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Mick Norris » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:42 am

Pete Doggers round 9 report
"It was very important for me to win this game to realistically stay in the race, otherwise it would have been really hard," said Giri. He reminded everyone that he drew all his games in the 2016 Candidates tournament, and added: "It's not enough that the tournament goes well and nobody is pulling ahead; you also need yourself to win games at some point."
The report also says Grischuk recently broke a finger
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Post by Nick Burrows » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:35 am

Grischuk blamed the wall for 6 months of wasted work.

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Post by Mick Norris » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:13 pm

Grischuk has played another French
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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:44 pm

Alekseenko seems to be surprised by what looks like a very normal and standard line of the Reti. Carlsen is just commenting on that French that it's quite unusual for White to get in Be3 in these positions.
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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:30 pm

Grischuk seems to have been considering his eleventh move for more than fifty minutes.

EDIT: up to an hour now.
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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:49 pm

HE'S MOVED
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Post by Mick Norris » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:52 pm

According to chess24, it took him 1 hour and 12 minutes to play the move that Magnus thought was obvious

I know Grischuk has form for this sort of thing, but I really can't see how he benefits from burning so much time
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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:53 pm

Magnus also reckons he's quite likely still in preparation
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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:25 pm

Alekseenko, not to be outdone, is down to his last three minutes with nineteen moves to go. He's also even more busted than MVL was yesterday.
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:54 pm

Nepo wins!
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Nick Burrows » Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:08 pm

Anish is going down

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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:43 pm

Something of a companion piece to the game he saved yesterday (albeit not remotely so drastic).

Good result for Nepo.
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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:59 pm

Caruana v Ding is drawn, perhaps to Fabi's relief after he went astray in a strong position
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